Howard B Levine
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4394693 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Howard B Levine |
| NOMBRES | Howard B |
| APELLIDO | Levine |
| FIRMA | LEVINE H B |
| AFILIACIONES | Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 116 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
“Waking Up Someone Who Is Sleepwalking” Daniel Ellsberg, Denial, Anti‐Thought and the Nuclear Threat
Daniel Ellsberg was an outspoken critic of the nuclear arms race, American nuclear war fighting strategy and the policy of deterrence based on so‐called mutually assured destruction. With courage and a deep moral conviction, he raised an often‐lone voice challenging our denial of the world annihilating potential of a nuclear exchange. His passing offers us a chance to reflect psychoanalytically on the minimization and denial of this and other wor…
About Your Next Patient
Bion/Winnicott encounter
On the question of the internal frame
This paper attempts to expand José Bleger's classic, metapsychological descriptions of the psychoanalytic frame to formulate and emphasize the role of the analyst's internal frame in establishing a psychoanalytic observational perspective in the analytic situation. The rationale for doing so follows from clinical necessity, especially when working with patients and psychic organizations that are 'beyond neurosis' and in non-traditional settings s…
To Feel in My Flesh
When we are confronted with the challenge of trying to fully convey or describe something about human life and emotional experience, we find ourselves up against the very limitations of language. This problem becomes especially relevant as we attempt to expand psychoanalytic theory so as to enable us to "approach a mental life unmapped by the theories elaborated for the understanding of neurosis" (Bion1962, p. 37). This paper seeks to aid in that…
Plato’s Ghost
There is great value in this book, which in its gentle insistence on “the inherently liminal nature of psychoanalysis” (p. ix1) can remind us of what psychoanalysis initially was, is, and can conti
A Metapsychology of the Unrepresented
are increasingly being referred to in psychoanalytic discourse, without our having established a generally agreed upon consensus about their definition, use or meaning. While these particular designations were never used by Freud, a careful reading of his work reveals them to be qualities that characterize the initial state of both the drive and perception. This paper attempts to place these terms in a clinically useful, metapsychological perspec…
On looking into The Ego and the Id 100 years after its publication
Freud's publication of The Ego and the Id sparked a diverging set of psychoanalytic models - ego psychology, structural conflict theory, Kleinianism, object relations theories, Lacanianism, etc. - each of which attempted to deal with the clinical limitations of his first topography in regard to unconscious guilt, negative therapeutic reactions and primitive character organizations. This paper attempts to look back on these developments from the p…
Freudian Matrix of andré Green
Cézanne and The Post-Bionian Field
Why war? An introduction
Psychoanalysis of the Psychoanalytic Frame Revisited
Psychoanalysis and Covidian Life
The Covid crisis in psychoanalysis and society
Further Thoughts on Trauma, Process and Representation
Psychoanalysis and Anxiety
Trauma, process and representation
The concept of Trauma in psychoanalysis has suffered from overuse and inconsistent use. A review of Freud's writings beginning with the Project indicates that from the perspective of the impact upon psychic processes, Freud held a more consistent view of the concept that, if recognized, can help avoid the often fruitless etiological debates of internal vs. external cause, intrinsic (drive) vs. extrinsic (reality) factors, etc. What is more helpfu…
The compulsion to repeat
The Repetition Compulsion has been the source of much controversy and perplexity. From it's clinical introduction in 1914 in Remembering, Repeating and Working Through to it's metapsychological elaboration in 1920 in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, it has occupied a central position in Freud's thinking. Especially in regard to his later work, it can be seen to be intrinsic to his final dual instinct theory, his theories of the Death Instinct, trau…
Reflections on Therapeutic Action and the Origins of Psychic Life
Psychoanalysis has seen a shift in emphasis regarding therapeutic action and technique. A predominant focus on the uncovering or reintegrating of repressed, disguised, or split-off contents has moved to include the intersubjective creation, development, and strengthening of psychic processes and capabilities. The analyst’s role in this process has been analogized to that of the primary maternal object in the origins of psychic life. This metaphor…
An analytic journey, by Marilia Aisenstein
The Unpast, by Dominique Scarfone
The Unpast by Dominique Scarfone is one of the most important and disturbing books that I have read in recent years. Important, because it is a profound examination of the meaning of “timelessness”
Body-Mind Dissociation in Psychoanalysis
The Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation
THE ETHICAL SEDUCTION OF THE ANALYTIC SITUATION: THE FEMININE-MATERNAL ORIGINS OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE OTHER. By Viviane Chetrit-Vatine; translated by Andrew Weller. London: Karnac/IPA, 2014. 215
Introduction
Key words: Education Section, Significant FiguresEducation Section, Psychoanalysts of Rio PlataEnrique Pichon Riviere
Psychoanalysis and The Problem of Truth
After briefly reviewing Freud's search for "the truth" in psychoanalytic treatments, the author discusses Bion's views on truth and its prominence in his thinking. The author then addresses various definitions of truth, drawing particularly on recent comments by Ogden (2015). Considerations of the relationship between truth and philosophy, and of that between truth and the arts, follow; the author then returns to a focus on psychoanalytic truth a…
The colourless canvas
Freud's initial formulations viewed psychoanalysis as working towards the rediscovery of psychic elements - thoughts, feelings, memories, wishes, etc. - that were once known - represented in the mind, articulatable, thinkable - but then disguised and/or barred from consciousness. His subsequent revisions implicated a second, more extensive category of inchoate forces that either lost or never attained psychic representation and, although motivati…
Creating analysts, creating analytic patients
This paper applies a contemporary, 'two-track'- transformational as well as archaeological - perspective on psychoanalytic process to clinical issues in the creation of analytic patients: case finding, recommending analysis, and recommending and negotiating the intensification of frequency of sessions in analytic psychotherapy. Central importance is assigned to the role of the mind and analytic identity of the analyst, including the analyst's cap…
Intersubjectivity and Interaction in the Analytic Relationship
The authors conceptualize intersubjectivity as a meta-theory that reflects the inherent nature of human relatedness and is conceptually independent of any particular theory of mind or school of psychoanalysis. Their view of intersubjectivity joins the emotional life of the analyst to that of the patient and places the analytic relationship at the center of the analytic process. They contrast intersubjectivity with traditional classical conflict t…
Reflections on Therapeutic Action and the Origins of Psychic Life
Psychoanalysis has seen a shift in emphasis regarding therapeutic action and technique. A predominant focus on the uncovering or reintegrating of repressed, disguised, or split-off contents has moved to include the intersubjective creation, development, and strengthening of psychic processes and capabilities. The analyst’s role in this process has been analogized to that of the primary maternal object in the origins of psychic life. This metaphor…
A Metapsychology of the Unrepresented
are increasingly being referred to in psychoanalytic discourse, without our having established a generally agreed upon consensus about their definition, use or meaning. While these particular designations were never used by Freud, a careful reading of his work reveals them to be qualities that characterize the initial state of both the drive and perception. This paper attempts to place these terms in a clinically useful, metapsychological perspec…
Trauma, process and representation
The concept of Trauma in psychoanalysis has suffered from overuse and inconsistent use. A review of Freud's writings beginning with the Project indicates that from the perspective of the impact upon psychic processes, Freud held a more consistent view of the concept that, if recognized, can help avoid the often fruitless etiological debates of internal vs. external cause, intrinsic (drive) vs. extrinsic (reality) factors, etc. What is more helpfu…
Psychoanalysis and The Problem of Truth
After briefly reviewing Freud's search for "the truth" in psychoanalytic treatments, the author discusses Bion's views on truth and its prominence in his thinking. The author then addresses various definitions of truth, drawing particularly on recent comments by Ogden (2015). Considerations of the relationship between truth and philosophy, and of that between truth and the arts, follow; the author then returns to a focus on psychoanalytic truth a…
Representations and Their Vicissitudes
André Green is a leading voice in French psychoanalysis whose contributions sit at a crossroads, where the challenges posed and the opportunities presented by the work of Lacan, Klein, Winnicott, and Bion meet the still-generative insights of Freud, many of which Green reminds us have yet to be fully appreciated or developed. In offering a summary of Green's work, two of his recent books, Key Ideas for a contemporary psychoanalysis: Misrecognitio…
Boundaries and Postanalytic Contacts in Institutes
The work of a COPE study group on boundaries is presented, with particular focus on post-termination contact after the training analysis. Through the use of clinical examples evocative and illustrative of the complexity of postanalytic contacts and relationships in the training analysis situation, a number of dilemmas are identified that former analysts and patients face when they meet as colleagues after the training analysis is over. These dile…
Toward a Psychoanalytic Understanding of Children of Survivors of the Holocaust
The psychoanalytic study of children of survivors of the Holocaust provides the opportunity to contribute to a more effective approach to this population while simultaneously investigating the impact of psychic trauma on personality development. Transgenerational transmission of trauma and the potential developmental consequences of parental affective unavailability and narcissistic overinvestment are examined, with particular emphasis on separat…
On the question of the internal frame
This paper attempts to expand José Bleger's classic, metapsychological descriptions of the psychoanalytic frame to formulate and emphasize the role of the analyst's internal frame in establishing a psychoanalytic observational perspective in the analytic situation. The rationale for doing so follows from clinical necessity, especially when working with patients and psychic organizations that are 'beyond neurosis' and in non-traditional settings s…
The compulsion to repeat
The Repetition Compulsion has been the source of much controversy and perplexity. From it's clinical introduction in 1914 in Remembering, Repeating and Working Through to it's metapsychological elaboration in 1920 in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, it has occupied a central position in Freud's thinking. Especially in regard to his later work, it can be seen to be intrinsic to his final dual instinct theory, his theories of the Death Instinct, trau…
Time and Timelessness
Time is a real dimension of the physical universe and a subjective matter of mind. Depending on their relationship to Eros and the Death Instinct, our feelings about time and timelessness may serve disparate ends— positive or negative, constructive or destructive. The conflicts that emerge between time and timelessness will be affected by and drawn into our conflicts between the reality principle and the pleasure principle and by our capacity to …
Mortal Combat
To Feel in My Flesh
When we are confronted with the challenge of trying to fully convey or describe something about human life and emotional experience, we find ourselves up against the very limitations of language. This problem becomes especially relevant as we attempt to expand psychoanalytic theory so as to enable us to "approach a mental life unmapped by the theories elaborated for the understanding of neurosis" (Bion1962, p. 37). This paper seeks to aid in that…
Psychoanalysis and Anxiety
A Note on Notes
In extreme situations of massive projective identification, both the analyst and the patient may come to share a fantasy or belief that his or her own psychic reality will be annihilated if the psychic reality of the other is accepted or adopted (Britton 1998). In the example of' Dr. M and his patient, the paradoxical dilemma around note taking had highly specific transference meanings; it was not simply an instance of the generalized human respo…
Judith A. Yanof and Howard B. Levine Respond
Freudian and Kleinian Theory
In his opening remarks, Pulver reviewed Kernberg's (1969) critique of Kleinian theory and outlined some of the significant events in the life of Melanie Klein: early object losses and subsequent depressions, relocations from Budapest to Berlin to London, and analyses with Ferenczi and Abraham
Toward a Psychoanalytic Understanding of Children of Survivors of the Holocaust
The psychoanalytic study of children of survivors of the Holocaust provides the opportunity to contribute to a more effective approach to this population while simultaneously investigating the impact of psychic trauma on personality development. Transgenerational transmission of trauma and the potential developmental consequences of parental affective unavailability and narcissistic overinvestment are examined, with particular emphasis on separat…
Generation of the holocaust
Beyond Love and Work
Freudian and Kleinian Theory
In his opening remarks, Pulver reviewed Kernberg's (1969) critique of Kleinian theory and outlined some of the significant events in the life of Melanie Klein: early object losses and subsequent depressions, relocations from Budapest to Berlin to London, and analyses with Ferenczi and Abraham
Intersubjectivity and Interaction in the Analytic Relationship
The authors conceptualize intersubjectivity as a meta-theory that reflects the inherent nature of human relatedness and is conceptually independent of any particular theory of mind or school of psychoanalysis. Their view of intersubjectivity joins the emotional life of the analyst to that of the patient and places the analytic relationship at the center of the analytic process. They contrast intersubjectivity with traditional classical conflict t…
Boundaries and Postanalytic Contacts in Institutes
The work of a COPE study group on boundaries is presented, with particular focus on post-termination contact after the training analysis. Through the use of clinical examples evocative and illustrative of the complexity of postanalytic contacts and relationships in the training analysis situation, a number of dilemmas are identified that former analysts and patients face when they meet as colleagues after the training analysis is over. These dile…
Judith A. Yanof and Howard B. Levine Respond
Large-Group Dynamics and World Conflict
A Note on Notes
In extreme situations of massive projective identification, both the analyst and the patient may come to share a fantasy or belief that his or her own psychic reality will be annihilated if the psychic reality of the other is accepted or adopted (Britton 1998). In the example of' Dr. M and his patient, the paradoxical dilemma around note taking had highly specific transference meanings; it was not simply an instance of the generalized human respo…
Truth, Growth, and Deception
Mortal Combat
Representations and Their Vicissitudes
André Green is a leading voice in French psychoanalysis whose contributions sit at a crossroads, where the challenges posed and the opportunities presented by the work of Lacan, Klein, Winnicott, and Bion meet the still-generative insights of Freud, many of which Green reminds us have yet to be fully appreciated or developed. In offering a summary of Green's work, two of his recent books, Key Ideas for a contemporary psychoanalysis: Misrecognitio…
Building Out Into the Dark
by Robert Caper Routledge, Hove, East Sussex , New York, NY , 2009 ; 107 pp ; $29.95 This extraordinary book, derived in large part from a close reading of the work of Bion, addresses some of the m
Time and Timelessness
Time is a real dimension of the physical universe and a subjective matter of mind. Depending on their relationship to Eros and the Death Instinct, our feelings about time and timelessness may serve disparate ends— positive or negative, constructive or destructive. The conflicts that emerge between time and timelessness will be affected by and drawn into our conflicts between the reality principle and the pleasure principle and by our capacity to …
The sins of the fathers
In contrast to the management of erotic boundaries, the institutional and clinical management of transactions across narcissistic boundaries can have far-reaching implications for how and in what ways power is wielded within our organizations. This is especially true in regard to analysts who are, or are perceived to be, in leadership positions within their psychoanalytic groups, organizations, and institutes. This paper illustrates some of the d…
Creating analysts, creating analytic patients
This paper applies a contemporary, 'two-track'- transformational as well as archaeological - perspective on psychoanalytic process to clinical issues in the creation of analytic patients: case finding, recommending analysis, and recommending and negotiating the intensification of frequency of sessions in analytic psychotherapy. Central importance is assigned to the role of the mind and analytic identity of the analyst, including the analyst's cap…
On Bion's analysis with Rickman
Conci's essay gives us a glimpse into the personal and emotional qualities of Rickman, the man, whom Bion would have encountered in the course of his first analysis. These “non-technical,” human qualities must have proved particularly helpful to Bion, who, as a young psychiatrist, entered analysis still suffering from the traumatic effects of his experiences as a tank commander during World War I. It is hypothesized that Rickman's “inner stillnes…
Precious Ambiguities
Doubt, Conviction and the Analytic Process
by Routledge, London and New York , 2009 ; 268 pp; £22.99 Based upon a series of papers written over the last 20-years, many of which have appeared in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, D
The colourless canvas
Freud's initial formulations viewed psychoanalysis as working towards the rediscovery of psychic elements - thoughts, feelings, memories, wishes, etc. - that were once known - represented in the mind, articulatable, thinkable - but then disguised and/or barred from consciousness. His subsequent revisions implicated a second, more extensive category of inchoate forces that either lost or never attained psychic representation and, although motivati…
On Greenberg's reading of Jose Bleger's psychoanalytic praxis
On Freud's Screen Memories
Psychoanalysis and The Problem of Truth
After briefly reviewing Freud's search for "the truth" in psychoanalytic treatments, the author discusses Bion's views on truth and its prominence in his thinking. The author then addresses various definitions of truth, drawing particularly on recent comments by Ogden (2015). Considerations of the relationship between truth and philosophy, and of that between truth and the arts, follow; the author then returns to a focus on psychoanalytic truth a…
Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts
The Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation
THE ETHICAL SEDUCTION OF THE ANALYTIC SITUATION: THE FEMININE-MATERNAL ORIGINS OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE OTHER. By Viviane Chetrit-Vatine; translated by Andrew Weller. London: Karnac/IPA, 2014. 215
Psychoanalysis (44 obras) · Psychology (44 obras) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (29 obras) · Philosophy (23 obras) · Epistemology (18 obras) · Psychoanalytic theory (18 obras) · Psychotherapist (17 obras) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (15 obras) · Social Psychology (10 obras) · Psychic (9 obras)